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ROBERT KAISER, Associate Editor, The Washington Post

I seize this opportunity to alert readers to The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin (Putnam, $29.95). This is not my discovery--Jonathan Yardley gave this young Russian-American's first novel a rave review in the Washington Post early this year. Perhaps because of my own experience in Russia (I arrived there for a three-year assignment in 1971, the year Olga Grushin was born in Moscow), this book has resonated powerfully with me. Grushin has written a novel about the corruption of the Soviet intelligentsia from the late 1950s until Mikhail Gorbachev's assumption of power in 1985. She does this by inventing ...

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